News tagged with warner bros

Judge slashes 'monstrous' fine in music piracy case

Condemning a two-million-dollar fine meted out to a Minnesota woman for illegally downloading music over the Internet as "monstrous and shocking," a judge has slashed the penalty to 54,000 dollars.

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created Jan 25, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 7

Hollywood flubs movie system launch, miffs users

(AP) -- Warner Bros. is learning a hard lesson about launching an ill-conceived product in the age of social media.

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Warner Bros. to impose delay on Redbox, others

(AP) -- Warner Bros. on Thursday joined studios Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox in demanding shipments be delayed to $1-per-night DVD rental kiosks like Redbox in an attempt to preserve demand for higher-priced disc ...

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created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Netflix to delay delivery of Warner's latest DVDs

(AP) -- Netflix Inc. will delay sending out Warner Bros.' latest movies by nearly a month in a concession that the DVD-by-mail service made so it could gain rights to show its subscribers more movies over the Internet.

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created Jan 06, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Wal-Mart to bridge online gap with disc-to-digital

(AP) -- Wal-Mart pledged to help introduce Hollywood's emerging online movie locker system to its customers, many of whom have never owned anything digital in their lives.

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created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Studios' view-everywhere system has soft launch

(AP) -- A Hollywood initiative that aims to revive home video sales by enabling you to watch your purchased movies on multiple devices had a soft start Tuesday as Warner Bros. released "Horrible Bosses" without ...

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created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0